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Dunning

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place in Perthshire, recorded in 1200 as Dunine and later as Dunyn, from Gaelic dùnan, a diminutive of dùn ‘fort’.
  • English : patronymic from Dunn.
  • Irish : variant of Downing.

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